JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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construction of the said railroad has been duly com-

menced as thereby required; and,

WHEREAS, by the third section of the act passed

January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-four,

chapter three hundred and eighty-nine, amendatory :

Preamble.

of the said charter, it was the intention of the Leg-

islaiure to extend the time for the completion of the

said railroad for the reasons therein stated, but from

an omission in transcribing the said third section of

the said act, the said third section became inopera-

tive, and it is the Intention of this General Assembly

to remedy the said defect and omission, and to ex-

tend the time for the completion of the said railroad;

now therefore

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the time for the completion of the

said Baltimore and Drum Point Railroad Company,

be and the same is hereby extended for the period

Time extend'd

of five years from the first day of January next; and

that the nineteenth section of the said charter, and

the third section of the said act of eighteen hundred

and seventy-four, chapter three hundred and eighty-

nine, be and the same are hereby repealed; provided,

Proviso.

however, that this extension of the charter of the

Baltimore and Drum Point Railroad Company is

granted in consideration and with the express con-

dition that the president, directors and company of

that railroad, shall, without delay, under the hands

of the president and directors, and the corporate seal

of that company, in due form of law, as shall be pre-

scribed by the Attorney General of this State, grant,

set over, assign, transfer and deliver to the Treasurer

Deliver up

of this State all the shares of stock and certificate in

shares of stock

the Annapolis and Elk Ridge Company; and all the

claims, interest, property and demands, in that com-

pany, now held or claimed by the Baltimore and

Drum Point Railroad Company, to be held by the

said treasurer for the use and benefit of this State,

and to be subject to such proceedings at law or

otherwise as shall be instituted by the Attorny Gen-

eral of the State, to protect the interest and rights of

the State in the Annapolis and Elk Ridge Railroad,

as a preferred stockholder therein, to the sum of

three hundred thousand dollars, and otherwise.

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